Fashion for Shoplifting

Fashion for Shoplifting is a two-hour making workshop where participants adapt and create clothing with special adaptations for shoplifting. In Bristol, participants created a tote bag with a secret pocket, a security guard uniform (with extra pockets) for slipping by unnoticed, a fake belly to wear under your clothes and over your stolen goods, and a high fashion balloon-shaped sleeve to dazzle security and stuff your ‘lifted items down.

The workshop is a space for in-depth discussion on shoplifting techniques and ethics, whilst playing with fabric, learning to use a sewing machine and making friends.

In future I’m interested in developing a line of wearable ‘fashion for shoplifting’ to be fabricated in workshops like this, and sold (stolen?) at Transactionland